Re: Where are they buried?

William Hunt posted this on the county above today. This is page two where there is a J. Pool, last entry.

January 26, 1922. The Poteau Weekly Sun "Report on Conditions at the County Jail. The Sun, always anxious to serve the news that its readers expect and want, interviewed Jailer W. R. Harris (by telephone) yesterday to know the exact condition in the county jail, and what the conditions there have been during the terrible scourge which originated there.

Mr. Harris has had as his assistants in handling the nineteen cases of smallpox in the jail the following men:

Lem Stidham, guard;

Jim Wilkinson, deputy sheriff;

G. R. Herritt, cook;

Bill Manifold, trusty;

Ralph Bird, trusty.

Of the nineteen cases in the jail eight of them died and there remains in the hospital ward eleven cases, all getting along nicely.

There are fifteen prisoners in jail who have not had smallpox. There were forty-one prisoners in the jail when the epidemic was discovered there, and eight of them broke jail and escaped.

Those who have not had the smallpox and those who are recovering may thank Mr. Harris, the county and city physician and the force at the jail for their escape.

Have Worked Hard. Mr. Harris and his force have worked with the prisoners and the afflicted day and night, doing all in their power to overcome the terrible scourge and deserve the highest praise, for they have been exposed to smallpox every minute, and not permitted to go outside the jail at any time during the siege.

'No one knows what we have been through during the past six weeks,' said Mr. Harris to The Sun. 'It has been nerve racking and the most terrible experience of my life. I will be most profoundly thankful when the danger is past and I may be permitted to get out of this hell hole and get a breath of fresh air.'

Prisoners Not Afflicted.

W. C. Rowten, Foster;

Unknown Foyl, Foster;

Lee Walker, colored, Braden;

Silas Jones, Cedars;

Charles Johnson, colored, Poteau;

J. W. King, transient;

J. W. Robinson, Foster;

Frank Carnes, address unknown;

Lee Meyer, Spiro;

Unknown Castleberry, Poteau;

Howard Clem, Sallisaw;

Ira Parker, Poteau;

Edgar Horn, Panama;

Leon Kelem, Spiro;

Hugh Salone, Bokoshe

Had Smallpox-Convalescing.

Lee Maddox, Summerfield;

Jack Crenshaw, Talihina;

John LeFlore, McCurtain;

Ben Payne, transient;

Marshall Woodside, Bokoshe;

Walter Warson, colored, Calhoun;

Manuel Paul, McCurtain;

Ralph King, McCurtain;

Unknown Kitchen, Foster;

W. T. Harris, Heavener;

Eugene Loncon, transient.

Eight Who Escaped.

Isaac Campbell, Spiro;

C. L. Schaeffer and Roy Harmon, arrested for the robbery of Pollock's store at LeFlore -Schaeffer is reported to have died of smallpox at the home of relatives in Indiana;

Henry Brown, transient;

Wm. Sykes, who was being held in connection with the murder of a miner at Heavener in December;

Edgar Pampin, transient;

J. C. Welchell, Tulsa;

Bill Boatman, Heavener.

Held in Detention.

J. Pool and J. R. Crow are being held in a detention camp at the fair grounds.

I don't see a name similar to the one you mentioned here. I know that 2 are buried at Monroe Cemetery, when I was photographing the headstones I came across them.